Historical+Significance+Activity

**Try to write three different types of questions based on the following models.**
. Hierarchies - grade in order of importance //Example: Rank in order of importance the five identified factors// //leading to the decision of colonies to join Confederation.//

· Precis - explain or describe in words, map, graph //Example: Explain or describe confederation in 100 words,// //a diagram or a map.//

· Isolation - assess its part in the wider context //Example: Why would the Winnipeg General Strike, which// //accomplished nothing and in the scheme of things resulted in limited violence, be studied by all Canadians,// //while Operation Solidarity, which involved many people and had a positive result for workers, is not seen as// //worthy or remembering even in British Columbia?//

· Counter - Possibilities - what might have happened if circumstances were different? //Example: What might// //have happened in Canada if Sir John A. Macdonald// had never lived? if Confederation had not occurred in 1867?

· Comparisons - of historical significance of two or more events

· Why something is historically significant - Why might they be seen as significant?

See **Significance Questions for Older Students** or Handout


 * Agenda for April 25**